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- culture
- language, religous beliefs, values, customs, and other ways of life shared by a group of peopl
- nomad
- person who moves around to make a living, usually herding animals, trading, hunting, or gathering food
- charity faith fasting journey prayer
- 5 pillars of islam in abc order
- mecca medina jerusalem
- 3 holy cities of islam abc order
- cultural diffusion
- movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another
- cape of good hope
- land jutting out on the south of africa- where the dutch built a trading post at africa's southern tip
- extended family
- family unit that may include parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, often living together
- subsistence farming
- raising just enough crops to support one's family
- oasis
- fertile place in desert with water and vegetation
- savanna
- region of tall grasses
- elevation
- height of the land above sea level
- amazing grace
- written by a captain of a slave ship who repented
- desertification
- changin of fertile land into land 2 dry for crops
- great rift valley
- formed millions of years ago, when the continents pulled apart forming a rift
- silt
- bits of rock and dirt on river bottoms
- literacy
- ability to read and write
- pilgrimage
- religous journey, for muslims the journey 2 mecca
- terrace
- platform cut into the side of a mountain, used for growing crops in steep places
- kalahari namib sahara
- 3 major african deserts- abc order
- plateau
- large raised areas of mostly level land
- economy
- system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth
- city state
- city that controls much of the land around it and has its own governement
- drought
- long period of time w/ lttle or no rainfall
- fertile
- containing substances that plants need in order to grow well
- nuclear family
- family that includes parents and childern
- islam
- founded by muhammad, in 600s ad,
- griot
- african story teller
- nationalism
- feeling of pride in one's homeland a group's identity as members of a nation
- hunter gatherer
- person who gathers wild food and hunts animals to survive
- rift
- deep crack in th eearth's surface
- ethnic group
- group of pple who share the same ancestors, culture, alnguage, or religion
- congo niger nile
- 3 major african rivers- abc order
- swahili
- african language that includes some arabic words
- migrate
- to move from one place to another
- quran
- book that is the writtenn record of islam
- civilization
- a society with cities, a central government, social classes, and usually writing, art, and architecture
- natural resource
- thing in an area that is useful- not manmade
- diversify
- to add variety, a country can do this to its economy by producing more crops
- domesticate
- to adapt wild plants and animals for human use
- sahel
- means shor border is hot and dry gets 4-8 inches of rain a year has small shrubs, gras,a nd some trees(acacia) groiwing
- muhammad
- lived in 600s ad, lived in saudi arabia, founded islam
- tributary
- small stream or river that flows into a larger river
- plate tectonics
- theory that the earht's crust is made of huge, slowly moving slabs of rock called plates
- cash crop
- crops raised for sale
- cataracts
- rock filled rapids
- plantation
- a large estate, ususally in a warm climate at which crops are grown by workers living there, they usually raise a single crop to export
- colonize
- to settle an areaand take over or create government
- cacao
- makes cocoa and chocolate
- democracy
- type of government in which pple rule themselves through elected representatives
- Mt kilimanjaro
- located on great rift valley, africa's tallest mountain, 19,341 ft high
- escarpment
- steep cliff about 100 stories high
- surplus
- more than is needed
- irrigate
- to arificially water crops